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Due: Monday, January 20 by 9:30 a.m. in the PLAB DropBox
Install LabVIEW on your
personal computer (if you purchased the Student Edition).
Reading Assignment
Read Chapter 1 of Learning with LabVIEW to familiarize
yourself with:
- the various icons and menus on the Front Panel and
Block Diagram toolbar,
- the various items in the File, Edit, Operate,
Project, Windows, and Help menus,
- pop-up menus,
- the Tools, Controls, and Functions palette, and
- the LabVIEW Help system.
Also begin reading Chapter 2 to familiarize yourself
with some of the basic concepts of Virtual Instruments including:
- Controls and Indicators
- Terminals
- Wires
- Front Panel
- Block Diagram
- Data Flow Programming
Programming Exercise
- Write a simple Virtual Instrument that will add 2
two-dimensional vectors, given their magnitude and direction relative
to the positive x-axis.
- Express the vector sum in terms of its magnitude and
direction.
- Your VI should have four controls (magnitude and
direction of each vector) and two indicators (magnitude and direction
of the sum).
- Display the magnitude of the vector to the nearest
hundredths of a unit and the direction to the nearest tenths of a
degree.
- Be careful because the trig routines in LabVIEW will
use the angles in radians.
- Save the VI with the name 'A01-last.vi' where last
is your last name and place it in the PLAB DropBox.
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